Finally, if you get a chance to sit down and talk to the family member or friend you’re trying to help, one approach can help ...

A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that. They are truly fascinating wonders, from how they form, their many types, and ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.